2021 Energy and Human Ambitions on a Finite Planet
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m#chapter.2

Where is humanity going? How realistic is a future of fusion and space colonies? What constraints are imposed by physics, by resource availability, and by human psychology? Are default expectations grounded in reality?

This textbook, written for a general-education audience, aims to address these questions without either the hype or the indifference typical of many books. The message throughout is that humanity faces a broad sweep of foundational problems as we inevitably transition away from fossil fuels and confront planetary limits in a host of unprecedented ways—a shift whose scale and probable rapidity offers little historical guidance.

Salvaging a decent future requires keen awareness, quantitative assessment, deliberate preventive action, and—above all—recognition that prevailing assumptions about human identity and destiny have been cruelly misshapen by the profoundly unsustainable trajectory of the last 150 years. The goal is to shake off unfounded and unexamined expectations, while elucidating the relevant physics and encouraging greater facility in quantitative reasoning.

After addressing limits to growth, population dynamics, uncooperative space environments, and the current fossil underpinnings of modern civilization, various sources of alternative energy are considered in detail— assessing how they stack up against each other, and which show the greatest potential. Following this is an exploration of systemic human impediments to effective and timely responses, capped by guidelines for individual adaptations resulting in reduced energy and material demands on the planet’s groaning capacity. Appendices provide refreshers on math and chemistry, as well as supplementary material of potential interest relating to cosmology, electric transportation, and an evolutionary perspective on humanity’s place in nature.

The Whole History of the Earth and Life 【Finished Edition】
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ4CUw9RcuA


This is a documentary which portrays the birth of the solar system, the birth of the Earth, and the emergence and evolution of life on Earth depicted through latest research activities.

Executive producer: prof. Shigenori Maruyama.

Supported by Hadean Bioscience Project.

1. The Origin of the Earth. 00:00
　4.567 billion years ago : The formation of the Solar System.
　4.56 billion years:ago : The formation of the Earth.
　4.55 billion years ago : Giant impact.
2. Initiation of Plate Tectonics. 02:53 【Partially revised】
　4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The formation of the atmosphere and ocean.
　4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The initiation plate tectonics.
3. Birth of Proto-life. 07:08
　4.10(4.20?) billion years ago : The birth of first proto-life.
4. The Initial Stage of Life. 11:04
　4.37-4.20 billion years ago : The loss of the primordial continent and the generation of a strong geomagnetic field.
　4.20 billion years ago : The emergence of sun-powered life.
　4.10 billion tears ago : Mass extinction.
5. Second Stage of Evolution of Life. 16:46
　2.90 billion years ago : The emergence of photosynthetic life.
　2.70 billion years ago : Mantle overturn.
6. Third Stage of the Evolution of Life. 20:46
　2.30 billion years ago : Mass extinction by snowball Earth.
　2.10 billion years ago : From prokaryotes to eukaryotes.
7: The Dawn of the Cambrian Explosion. 25:19
　1.90-0.80 billion tears ago : The Formation of a Supercontinent.
　700-600 million years ago : The Sturtian Glaciation
　700-600 million years ago : The Leaking Earth.
8: The Cambrian Explosion. 31:08
　640 million years ago : The Origin of Multicellular Life. The Marinoan Glaciation.
　580 million years ago : Appearance of Ediacaran Fauna. The Gaskiers Glaciation.
　550 million years ago : Evolution Responds to Environmental Changes
　540 million years ago : The First Cambrian Organisms
9: The Paleozoic Era. 37:18
　600 million years ago : Expanding Habitats.
　540 million years ago : The Co-evolution of Planets and Insects
　550-540 million years ago : The Evolution of Vertebrates
　260-250 million years ago : The Largest Mass extinction of the Phanerozoic Eon. Collision with a Dark nebula
10: From the Mesozoic to the birth of human beings. 43:34
　Dispersion and amalgamation of continents, and the evolution of life.
　The birth of primates.
　66 million years ago : Dinosaur extinction.
11: The Humanozoic eon : the appearance of human beings and civilization. 50:38
　Evolution into primates.
　The birth of human beings, the fourth animal category : the Humanozoic eon.
　10000 years ago : The Agricultural Revolution.
　5000 years ago : The Urban Revolution.
　2400 years ago : The Religious Revolution.
　300 years ago : The Industrial Revolution.
　The Information Revolution.
12: Future of the Earth. 58:05
　Challenges for Human society.
　Future of Human society.
　Future of the Earth.
　200 million years later : Formation of the supercontinent.
　400 million years later : Extinction of the C4 plants.
　1 billion years later : Cessation of plate tectonics.
　1.5 billion years later : Disappearance of the ocean.
　4.5 billion years later : Collision between the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy.
　8 billion years later : Annihilation of the Earth.

TADEAS:

UFO sightings explained | Robin Hanson and Lex Fridman
https://youtu.be/aUvGsSCGWdw

2018 A planetary turn for the social sciences? - Bronislaw Szerszynski
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429470097-32/planetary-turn-social-sciences-bronislaw-szerszynski
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/196590254.pdf

there were also hints of another potential transformation of the social sciences, one which I want to call the planetary turn. While sharing some themes with the global turn, this nascent turn is strikingly different in its approach and implications. Above all, whereas the global turn was mainly about saying that the social sciences needed to respond to the growing interconnectedness of social processes across the surface of the planet, the planetary turn involves the recognition that the bounding of the social was always already problematic, and on another, more comprehensive front: that between human society as a semiotic, meaningful phenomenon on the one hand and the physical processes of the Earth on the other. It thus involves the rejection of what had been a key assumption of sociology since its foundation, human exemptionalism, an assumption which had already been problematized in the 1970s by the subdiscipline of environmental sociology

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the foundational task of any planetary turn must be the interdisciplinary task ofinvestigating the planet as a category of being in its own right, and the ways in which this conditions social existence in fundamental ways. This involves moving beyond the way that the figure of ‘the planet’ has figured in globalisation discourses, where the focus has been on a narrow range of characteristics of the Earth such as unity, boundedness, fragility and interconnectedness. Instead, we need a more complex account of ‘planetary being’ which is at once more general and more tightly specified. John’s use of complexity, emergence and non-Newtonian time in books from Sociology Beyond Societies (2000) onwards was a great starting point, but we need to draw in more detail from the Earth sciences.

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a planetary social science would be volumetric, concerned with relations not just on the surface of the Earth but also within and across all the different entangled volumes of the planet from its core out to its near space environment. As social scientists are increasingly arguing, we need to develop a 3D imaginary for the social sciences. John’s work gave some pointers for how to do this, by going up into the atmosphere in his book with Cwerner and Kesselring on Aeromobilities (2009) and down into geological strata in Societies Beyond Oil. But this volumetric approach needs to be developed more systematically, through a deeper engagement with the significance of the Earth’s stratification into different layers and compartments – core, mantle, crust, biosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, magnetosphere – with different properties and stabilised on different timescales. A planetary turn would also be concerned with the distinctive topological relations and thereby modes of existence and relatedness that are made possible by this stratification. Strata are often in asymmetrical relations of dependency with each other, and the surfaces and boundariesbetween different strata and compartments occasion radically different kinds of phenomena. The sub-aerial surface that was left largely reified and unproblematised in sociology’s global turn starts to look different and far more interesting when we first zoom out to investigate the diverse forms of complex order that can be generated in and between other zones of the extended body of the Earth, and only then zoom back in to the ‘critical zone’ or ‘boundary layer’ of mixing between earth and sky that we ourselves inhabit

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a planetary social science would also have to engage with the interplanetary. One aspect of this concerns interplanetary mobilities – the study of the multiple ways in which the stories of individual planets can become intertwined through the exchange of entities and materials of different kinds. Here the critical social sciences can help avoid the unreflective projection of ‘globalisation’ narratives of imperialism and neoliberalism onto an extra-terrestrial canvas. But another aspect of the interplanetary, at least as important, is the comparative. The deepening understanding of our own solar system and the continuing discovery of diverse exoplanets orbiting other stars can help us to construct a far more expansive theoretical ‘phase space’ for planetary development, one that can accommodate diverse possible developmental trajectories of planets. For the social sciences this is an opportunity to counter the dominant geocentric ‘observer bias’ that takes the specific story of the Earth to be the template for any planet that might develop complex organised matter. Drawing on empirical astronomy, but also the more speculative practices of astrobiology and science fiction, a planetary social science can explore how the complex forms of matter, meaning and motion that we associate with society might have emerged through very different developmental processes and take profoundly different forms

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In What is the future? (2016), John Urry rejected two common approaches to the future: one that focuses on individual rationality and agency, and another that sees the future as more or less determined by fixed structures. Instead, he insisted on the need to regard social futures as the product of self-organising complex adaptive systems, which pass through phase transitions and thereby behave in non-linear ways. This insight applies a fortiori to planetary futures. The Earth regarded in the way I have sketched above – as planet, as volumetric, as differential and as geohistorical – is one whose future cannot be known in advance. However, at the same time, these dimensions of the planetary turn can help us to discern the possibilities latent within our own time, and perhaps better steer towards more desirable futures for our own, precious home planet.

Multi-Planetary Worlds: Mobilities of the Space Age — the UWA Profiles and Research Repository
https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/multi-planetary-worlds-mobilities-of-the-space-age

As advances in techno-science propel a range of objects and ideas, data and images and affects and capital beyond the globe, their proliferation progressively entangles human societies with their planetary outside. The mobilities of the space age accelerate and magnify the prospective reach of our futures in the making. Opening up opportunities for multi-planetary projections of the species, they steadily protract the horizon of our common world. This chapter captures an array of mobilities enlivening our multi-planetary arena, exploring the ways in which their material and social effects condition the unfolding of our shared futures on and off the Earth.

Library Genesis: Carlos López Galviz (editor), Emily Spiers (editor) - Routledge Handbook of Social Futures
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=6B4096AB8157039F44501DCEF2BBDE41

2022 The Moving Walkway is Ending: A Speculative Essay on Climate-Driven Species Mobility and Planetary Politics
https://sciendo.com/article/10.21307/borderlands-2022-009

The article examines this less considered element of the current and future mobile planet, in search of framings that can better help us grapple with the transformations underway. It first presents some general global projections of species mobilities and presents some of the key issues raised around intersection of human and nonhuman mobility. It then turns to two elemental forces—fire and ice—whose power is increasingly visible in contemporary planetary politics. Both elements call for a consideration of deeper time horizons, alongside the immediate emergencies that these forces also bring about. The final section turns to think about the ethics, time scales, and differential politics of a fully mobile planet—one that is mobile from geological forces to earthly elements, from nonhuman species to human lives and cultures, drawing on recent work on earth mobility and speculative kinetic ethics.

2021 Exchanging Fire: A Planetary History of the Explosion
https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/163636/1/Exchanging_Fire_.pdf

The invention of near-instantaneous combustion – the fiery explosion – is an event in both in planetary and human history. While the concoction of a volatile mix of carbon, sulfur and nitrates by alchemists in 9th century China paved the way for firearms and gunpowder empires, ultra-highspeed deflagration is also arguably the first entirely new form of combustion on Earth since fire emerged in the Silurian Period some 410 million years ago. What does it mean, I ask, that the explosion is at once instrumental in the global rise of Western powers and a planetary event that exceeds the practices, strategies and imaginaries that organize its deployment? In this chapter I explore two related paradoxes of explosive firepower. The first is that the relatively rapid technological transfer of the firearm from China to Europe is at once a source of profound trauma for the ‘modernizing’ European subject and a key component in the triumphalist narrative of Western global expansion. The second is that the application of explosives in extractive industries both plays an important role in advancing the understanding of the geological strata – and hence the deep history of the Earth, and is of pivotal importance in transforming Earth systems and rock fabrics to such an extent that the very legibility of the Earth and is compromised. Extending the idea of planetary social thought (Clark and Szerszynski 2021), the chapter brings these paradoxes together as a way to reimagine Western colonization as a pyrogeographical process: at once a variation played on firepower of the Earth and an instrument of a specific world-shaping structural violence.

2022 Planetary ethnography: A primer
https://ruj.uj.edu.pl/xmlui/bitstream/handle/item/292651/szolucha_et-al_planetary_ethnography_2022.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Many people and communities have engaged and encountered the planetary long before Sputnik 1 reached Earth orbitto become the first human-made object to cross the Kármán line. For centuries, looking up at the sky has served as an important way to navigate people’s location, both on Earth (Kursh and Kreps 1974)and within the Universe(Hamacher and Banks 2019). Indigenous communities recount their experience of centuries of encounters in space (Bawaka Country et al. 2020) and their cosmic connections to space (Young 1987). And extra-terrestrial planetary rendezvous on Earth are reportedby people and communities across the globe (Battaglia 2006; Saethre 2007).

In planetary ethnography, we want to trace people’s engagements with outer space that challenge dominant conceptions within scientificdiscourses. We hope that this approach will help usbring out the tensions, ambiguities and pluralities of the planetary. As Spivak puts it, “planet-thought”needs to include a historical reckoning where we continuously educate ourselves and embrace interrogations into the meanings of “outer”and “inner space” (Spivak 2015).

2020 Planetary Social Thought: The Anthropocene Challenge to the Social Sciences - Nigel Clark, Bronislaw Szerszynski
http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=922A7CC8A1F3100A48597185F167E623

The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with unpredictable consequences. Social life has become a central ingredient in the dynamics of the planet itself.

How should the social sciences respond to the opportunities and challenges posed by this development? In this innovative book, Clark and Szerszynski argue that social thinkers need to revise their own presuppositions about the social: to understand it as the product of a dynamic planet, self-organizing over deep time. They outline ‘planetary social thought’: a transdisciplinary way of thinking social life with and through the Earth. Using a range of case studies, they show how familiar social processes can be radically recast when looked at through a planetary lens, revealing how the world-transforming powers of human social life have always depended on the forging of relations with the inhuman potentialities of our home planet.

Introduction: What Planet Are You On?
1 Earth at the Threshold
2 Who Speaks through the Earth?
3 Planetary Social Life in the Making
4 What is Planetary Social Thought?
5 Inhuman Modernity, Earthly Violence
6 Terra Mobilis
7 Grounding Colonialism, Decolonizing Earth
8 Earthly Multitudes and Planetary Futures: Ten Questions

2019 The Origins of Planetary Ethics in the Philosophy of Russian Cosmism
https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Planetary-Philosophy-Russian-Cosmism/dp/154349420X

vernadsky jako myslitel planetarity

2014 150 Years of Vernadsky: The Noösphere
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1500605395/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=VC2RKYA4A6T0E2HAJ5FD&dpPl=1&dpID=51H-AfwHj0L

2014 150 Years of Vernadsky: The Biosphere
https://www.amazon.com/150-Years-Vernadsky-Biosphere-1/dp/150060514X

2015 The Study of Life and the New Physics
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1514637103/ref=pd_aw_sim_14_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=EK0XTZRCSF9V20TEVFE0&dpPl=1&dpID=31Y9Ug%2BPvML

The author was clearly one of the early pioneers along the path to a new way of perceiving reality. Clearly not the only one, he belonged to the first first straggling nodes of the emerging global network that would slowly set in motion the dynamics that would generate a perception of the cosmos as a stochastic process that has neither beginning nor end and the human species as being amongst a myriad perceptual mechanisms generated by this process in order to perceive the potential pathways to its own becoming, being and non being, and which at the time included such elements as Fitjof Capra, Arne Naess, James Lovelock, Lynn Margulis, Humberto Maturana, Francisco Varela and a few others.

The history of the emergence of this unitive or non dual perception of the cosmos is a long one that goes back to the beginning of the emergence of homo sapiens, that has as yet to be told and when it finally is set down in writing Vernadsky's contribution will surely find acknowledgement therein. While the emergence of such a history may not be far away the works of Vernadsky will have to await its coming in order to take its due recognition as an important step in the evolution of human perceptual capacity.

The network of those with such perceptual capacities (sometimes wrongly called systems thinkers) is growing and the collective perceptions that it has begun to generate have begun to surpass anything that the perception of any single human individual is able to generate. The pathway to the recognition of this network and its engagement of earthprocesses has been laid by the concept of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network now actively functioning with global scope. Vernadsky may never have realized that his perceptions of the cosmos were the precursors of a new world that would lead to a new lease of life for the human species and an opportunity for the transformation of its global civilization into a sustainable one and for the facilitation of lifes conscious evolution through and beyond human being and its spread throughout the cosmos